“It’s a matter of when. It could be as soon as next year,” Arvedlund told our MarketWatch colleague Jon Friedman for an August 2009 column. Arvedlund said that Wilpon may have lost up to $700 million in the Madoff scheme, and the losses might force him to sell the team or take on investment partners.

Today — more than a year after her prediction — Wilpon disclosed he may sell a piece of the Mets to “remove uncertainty about funding its operation in light of litigation stemming from the Bernard Madoff case,” reported Deal Journal colleagues Chad Bray and Brian Costa….